According to CNN, Americans ages 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly 88 text messages per day.

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In the 1970s, people were exposed to approximately 500 commercial messages per day.

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Americans ages 18-29 send and receive an average of nearly 88 text messages per day, compared to 17 phone calls.

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In September it handled an average of 17.5 million messages per day, 48 percent in payments, 44 percent in securities and 6 percent in treasury operations.

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WhatsApp users sent over 10 billion messages per day!

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Because it can index SWIFT payments, Splunk can provide reports on average messages sent per day, number cleared, and the number of failures, along with information on total cot of commission for payments and top institutional customers.

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Although battery life is hard to determine, a Sharp representative estimated 30 hours if sending and receiving messages two times per day.

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Social media are adding to the flood: the number of messages on Twitter will exceed 500m per day by the end of 2012.

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Currently, the library is processing roughly 500 million tweets per day, up from about 140 million daily messages in 2011, according to the blog post.

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